Costello, Elvis - Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver) Lyrics

Got this...stiff promo album titled "OUR aim is true" on RED vinyl. think it was pre MY AIM IS TRUE. Raw classic!!

I have been listening to E.C. since 1978, and I have never heard this. What an artist he has always been. He never disappoints!

Elvis sounds like Gil Scott Heron on this one for some reason.

So you're trying to make connection
You heard whispers in the hall
She'll be out again this evening
When you come around to call

So you dodge the lady killer
Who came creepin' 'cross the floor
Then you caught up in a whirlwind
You got blown right out the door

Oh yes, it was a whirlwind
Sweet romance was on your side
If you wanna dance on my face
You must tell me why you lied

Imagination is a powerful deceiver
When you try to believe her just a little too much
Imagination is a powerful deceiver
I'll go out of my mind, if I'm losing your touch

I see a look of recognition
So well hidden in your eye
And your peepshow regulations
They just don't seem to apply

Well, did I see you in the circus
In the ring without a hand
Now you think that you can curse us
Steal the show and stop the band

Oh, you can follow your dreams
Oh, but please don't lead me on
If you wanna bleed in my face
You were here and now you're gone

Imagination is a powerful deceiver
When you try to believe her just a little too much
Imagination is a powerful deceiver
I'll go out of my mind, if I'm losing your touch

I'll go out of my mind, if I'm losing your touch
I'll go out of my mind, if I'm losing your touch

Cahl ❤️

The chord changes in this song are ridiculous. And brilliant.

This is perfect

What a genius this man is. His voice is like a trumpet. Been singing this for 2 weeks.

reminds me of my high school sweet heart. Makes me sad and happy all at the same time.

pure quality

This song has been on my mind all week while I'm home from work, waiting to pass a kidney stone. Maybe it's the pain meds, but my imagination is creating some powerful (false) images of where this extreme pain is coming from. I hope you, nor EC ever have to do this.

One release with this song on it is the 2CD set My Aim Is True (with bonus disc) on Rhino Records, released in 2001 (ASIN: B00005MLU0). Be careful because there is at least one 2CD set released that does not include this song.

Who's an original? The Beatles? Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols? The truth is all of them borrowed from earlier performers. They added something original of themselves. Elvis Costello added just as much or more of his own originality as any of them.

No person is an original. At first I was thinking Adam was but then I realized he was made in God's image (accourding to legend).

it's written below the video - track comes from "my aim is true" album

Just like his name, EC is a fabrication. I "kinda" like him, but just cannot consider him an original.

does anyone know what album this is from?

No album at the time. It was an early song before he got a contract, you can hear him speak at the end of it

Just for the sake of accuracy, this was a stiff promo album titled "OUR aim is true". I had a copy and it was ruined in a flood.

PLEASE upload the track of Bacharach's "I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF" from the album if you have it!!!

Been havin this song on my mind all week! Love it. Elvis' voice does it to me all the time!

Yes, he had strong pipes. Still has. But not this strong

this song is amazing. thank you!